"The latest release from Persistencebit headquarters, comes with a killer single-sided, single-track EP, serving the brilliant Donnacha Costello Remix of 'Cobra' by Rolf and Fonky (Italian DJs and producers Mirco Uguccioni and Maurizio Ottavi). And Donnacha does it again, what he does best -- delivering strong, low-riding techno grooves. Costello, who is no stranger to the electronic music world, with his sought-after releases on Mille Plateaux, releases on Kompakt and his Colour Series on his own Minimise imprint, brings us fine echoing claps over a steam-driven shuffle move, letting the intensity escalate when a house feel seeps into the track's hammering pulse, after which a gradual wind-down brings the lights down to help ease the hooded snake to sleep on this remix. The track is a pure dancefloor sweeper in full effect, cut and mastered for optimal DJ-friendly use."

"In this EP, that comes after two years from the first debut EP always for Persistencebit called Archive Sessions Volume 1, Alessandro Bocci makes perfect his special minimal techno sound. The EP features 3 tracks and showcases various aspects of deep and driving techno in a modern sound aesthetic. While the 'Original Mix' is a percussive tech-house monster with deep melodies and a strong groove for the dancefloor, the fabulous 'Baffella (Gianluca Ghini)' remix track dives into even deeper and houser waters, presenting the deepest melodies with more than just a hint of classic Detroit techno, but in a very house-like form, on top adding Model 500/Cybotron bass lines to it, that leaves the listeners thirsty for more. This is definitely a highlight. Mikael Stavöstrand takes it back to a more rhythmic techy form, with percussions and hi-hats sharp as razorblades over dark atmospheric voice samples turning it into another dancefloor tune with an overall darker feel, which perfectly rounds up this EP, by creating a varied fine blend of mixed moods and grooves."

"After the fantastic Gez Varley and Geoff White releases in the past few months, Persistencebit returns strong once more with the Swedish minimal techno artists Johan Skugge and Mikael Stavöstrand, who work their collaborative gear into a feverish lather on a new trio of high-octane cuts. Immaculately constructed and executed with precision, the duo's material isn't as skeletal as one might expect-ample noise and commotion appear alongside the tunes' grooves-and, in its acidy moments, Pink Phantom sometimes sounds like Audion, albeit in a slightly less raucous frame of mind. Working a lithe and rubbery techno march on the A-side's charging title cut, Skugge and Stavöstrand deepen the cut's hypnotic impact with the incessant hoot of a cuckoo motif while keeping the groove stoked with roiling bass lines and percussion-enhanced beats. Augmented by an announcer's looped 'test' utterance, 'Gotcha' jacks with an irrepressible and seductively infectious tech-house swing that will pull even the most resistant clubber onto the dance floor, while 'Mantradisk' closes the flip with jittery techno swing. No one should be too surprised by the material's polished veneer, given the wealth of experience the Mitek and Force Inc. vets bring to the project."

"Persistencebit proudly returns with a new 12" series by none other then Geoff White aka Bianco. This is the first in a 3 12" record set, which comes in a very special sleeve and features four tracks that show Geoff's appreciation for high-tech funky techno in full effect. The music is digital, but never clinical and really puts the funk into focus. Geoff White returns from the open road with a new alias (Bianco) to supplement an existing one (Aeroc). Obviously White pursues different directions under the two guises -- atmospheric guitarscaping as Aeroc vs. jacking techno as Bianco -- but the two aliases share guitar as the major sound source. The Ghostly and Background vet (among others) opens Cioccolato Sessuale with the techno bounce of Cioccolatto, whose sliced'n'diced weave of guitar and voice snippets may remind some listeners of Akufen's 'My Way,' and follows it with three more uptempo and nimble-footed tracks. 'Noce Di Cocco,' 'Mai Mai,' and 'Dato' all traffic in a bright brand of twitchy techno-funk, with their uniformly jaunty spirit offset only once when a downtrodden melody descends hauntingly during 'Dato.'"

"A veteran of Force Inc., !K7, Tommy Boy, Swim, and Warp, one-time LFO member and current G-Man Gez Varley brings his protean techno mastery to Persistencebit with two originals and two 'G-11' mixes by Carsten Fietz and Nadja Lind. Varley anchors his pulverizing G-man mix of 'Slaunch' with a colossal kick drum and drenches its galloping pulse with cobra-like streams."

"Certainly the title of Vaz's latest Persistencebit 12" suggests the close of one chapter and the start of another -- the end of the experimental edged Sound Variation series and the start of bringing back the old school feel, which here is closest referred to as house -- Vaz's undeniable first true love. But regardless of one's titular interpretation, these tracks are undeniably three of Vaz's freshest and most rocking ones to date. 'Endings & Beginnings (Your Mix)' kicks off the set with a boisterous, Motown-inflected bass line and swishing hi-hats that rapidly settle into a driving funk groove. Vaz builds tension by recycling a circular melody until it becomes a hypnotic mantra and by dropping out the groove at key moments and then building it back up again even more forcefully. Equally relentless, 'Two in One Solution' casts its propulsive gaze upon Chicago and Detroit house styles, with Vaz again exploiting drop-outs and sweetening the groove with creamy synth streams during the tune's eight-minute bounce. The B-side's entirely devoted to a ten-minute rendering of 'Endings & Beginnings (My Mix)' that's slightly slower and a little looser than the original but equally funky."

"First 12" on Persistencebit records by the Italian artist Wang Inc.: 3 tracks and a bunch of locked grooves. The concept of this first exploration of Wang Inc. is simple: 'the best meditation is the one you make in the middle of entropy. These are hard years for humanity.' -- says Wang Inc. 'Terror, war on terror, enduring freedom, pollution, economic harassment and the sea will be dead in 40 years."

"The new EP presents a slightly different Vaz persona than the one heard on the EPs and the full-length Repetitive Moments Last Forever. Whereas those releases showcase a mercurial, future-groove style, the latest material invokes the classic sounds of Detroit techno and Chicago house while also directing its gaze firmly towards tomorrow. That's nowhere more evident than on the A side's 'Day Light Saving' where a glimmering keyboard pattern's sunny vibe sets the stage for an old-school stomp to gradually emerge from the shadows. Over the course of its seven minutes, the tune shifts from classic techno to a free-flowing mode closer in spirit to Vaz's current approach. Also representative of that current style, the B side's propulsive shape-shifter 'Walking Up My Own Alley' gathers steam as reverberant chiming chords twist into oblique configurations, the path ahead illuminated by hand-claps and a buoyant pulse. At disc's close, Vaz mixes the jazz-funk strut of the house-flavored 'Way Back When' into an infectiously swinging groover before battering it into shape with an incessant stream of syncopated percussive accents."

"The Ventriloquist is Mirco Uguccioni, one half of the project Rolf & Fonky and Vaseline and Dust is their second issue. Where Amb, the first EP, explores the ambient musical side of Mirco, Vaseline and Dust takes the listener in a sound more melodic and rhythmic... a wonderful second work."

"The EP's three tracks were created between 2003 and 2005 at Kenneth James Gibson's Echo Park, California studio and, sounding anything but stale, exude a refreshingly poppy vibe that's noticeably downplayed in the darker material currently making the electronic rounds. Group Trivia isn't wholly different, however -- its 'computer funk' is just as quirky and micro-detailed as Gibson's other [a]pendics.shuffle releases -- but its carefree and playful spirit feels sunnier. It's near-impossible to resist, for example, the jubilant shuffle that jauntily struts through 'Shine Another Light,' and the other two cuts are equally infectious if fundamentally different in kind: the syncopated rhythms of 'Your Spoons' vaguely suggest a dancehall connection, while voice fragments careen and collide over a percolating jack in the bubbly title track. 'Group Trivia''s swinging grooves make for perfect listening."

"The Andy Vaz First Aid Course EP remixes are without a doubt a must-have survival pack. His first EP on Italian Persistencebit records, remixed by four of the biggest global talents in the four to the floor game. Jan Jelinek, Detroit's Anthony Shake Shakir, Krikor and Mapstation (aka Stefan Schneider/To Rococo Rot). All mixes relay different contexts and approaches, creating a unique 12". Andy Vaz's original elements of deep house are reinterpreted as serious dancefloor hits. Jan Jelinek (as Farben), delivers a minimal house version of 'Places And People Change' that swings and flows like there's no tomorrow, while Mapstation steps it up a notch in a more old school techno manner. On side B, Krikor delivers a dark, sinister, bomb shelter mix, in a pumping, analog-sounding, noisy cut-up style that he is so well known for. A superb mix that will initially twist up the floor and blow the speakers in the true sense of the meaning. Last but not least, Detroit's legend and one of the originators of the initial wave of Detroit techno Anthony Shake Shakir, takes it back to the good old days, delivering an authentic Detroit techno ain't-never-going-out-of-style mix of pure madness. Rearranging Vaz's original melodies spicing up in tempo with harmonies so sweet and timeless that sends you on a wild cruise through history."

"Andy Vaz returns with his latest 12" showing the undeniable connection between 'minimal techno' and 'deep house,' sneaking in with a deep, impressive, almost old-school sounding, groove. The 3 tracks follow the demands of the club-situation as well as being unique in Vaz's typical sound signature, yet heading towards a new direction. The tracks are not even slightly clicks and cuts flavored, not even that fragmented, really, just killer deep house music, with a dark edge to it. 'Dark Changing Patterns' on the A-side is a long, slow build-up, slightly dark in its overall mood, refreshing house-tune, perfectly arranged to make the piece dense, rhythmic and interesting. Full of ideas, all perfectly jammed together into a long, floating mix which gives you a lot of choices and lots of different ideas to experience. Side B features two tracks, which are melodic, strong grooving DJ-friendly house tracks with a more optimistic feel which definitely demonstrate Vaz's strong connection to the early house-music movement. The EP is entitled Lost & Recovered Data EP, as during the process of finishing the project, the tracks were partially lost during a hard-drive crash and had to be recovered and re-edited."

"CD version of the long-awaited full-length album Repetitive Moments Last Forever by Andy Vaz, the man behind Background Records, A Touch of Class, and the 'Soundvariation' series. Repetitive Moments Last Forever downplays minimal click-house (even though there are references to it) and the free jazz-influenced experiments of the 'Soundvariation' series for a unique and fresh house style that favors soulfulness and strong, almost old-school grooves over technical perfection. Vaz cultivates a swinging, perpetually shape-shifting future-techno that reveals traces of hip-hop, broken beat, house, acid, throughout the album's eight pieces. As his first love is and always has been the deeper, traditional sound of house music (the fundamental reference for genres like clicks & cuts, minimal house, microsound, and others), it doesn't surprise that the new album's focus is house, specifically a deep and soulful version of it. What results is a very personal, multi-faceted collection of jacking grooves that pays tribute to the electronic sounds of Vaz's past."

"Recorded at one of the most 'on' clubs in Detroit right now, 'Club Oslo,' Andy Vaz continues his highly recommended Live in... series with a great tour de force through recent and future electronic music that simply had to be pressed up. 70 minutes of great versatile sounds of now that yet have to be labeled. Based on a solid eruptive minimal foundation, Vaz is able to inspire with unexpected 'Frikkel Electro,' Classic Detroit deep-house, technified jazz and crystalline techno. Superb for warming up to endless nights out or simply put it in your local club's CD decoder at 2pm and let it work."

"Just like Andy Vaz's previous EP the First Aid Course on Persistencebit, the People Inside/Outside EP also showcases a more expansive and dance-based sound from Andy Vaz, in contrast to the self-imposed minimalistic style that runs throughout the 'Sound_Variation' series. The down-tempo 4/4 A-side track is as deep as it can get, slow building up, authentic deep house with original '90s-sounding phantom chords, raw bass lines, and various hi-hat patterns that nicely offsets the regulated pulse of the bass drum. Vaz adds layer upon layer to make the piece dense and intricate without ever sacrificing its fundamental propulsiveness. The track almost refers to Moodymann's soulful house tunes, yet totally in Vaz's own handwriting that cannot be imitated. The B-side features a dark, linear minimal techno track, also slowly building up into a more driving forward moving piece towards the end, while B2 is a funky Chicago house-influenced melodic track, making this EP an overall diverse and interesting release."